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A bounded evidentiary use
an eighteenth-century Geʽez presentation-codex working record useful for studying acquisition and repackaging
Enoch Witness Record
BnF Éthiopien 49: Enoch witness record
Inspect the bounded codex record for BnF Éthiopien 49, including language, material, date dimension, corpus coverage, source-dossier bindings, limitations, and related transmission edges.
This is a stable page for a dossier-derived working record. It does not certify the record, identify an original, or promote the underlying dossier claims into the canonical research corpus.
ENO-WIT-010 · Acquisition, transfer, and new access
BnF Éthiopien 49
Illustrates the difference between a community-use codex and a prestige object prepared for European transfer.
What this record can and cannot establish
Cannot establish
A larger claim that outruns the record
a neutral or universally accepted account of commission, transfer, physical alteration, or ownership
Record anatomy
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- Stable ID
- ENO-WIT-010
- Record type
- Codex
- Evidence register
- Physical witness
- Language
- Geʽez
- Material / medium
- Parchment codex
- Displayed date
- 18th century CE
- Date dimension
- Copying
- Date state
- Date and commission context reported in the supplied acquisition dossier
- Find / origin context
- Gondar commission context reported
- Custody statement
- Bibliothèque nationale de France reported; direct catalogue verification required
- Custody state
- Commissioned Presentation To Institution
- Surviving extent / function
- Large Geʽez presentation codex of 1 Enoch
- Publication state
- Public Working Record
- Canonical research entity
- No
Primary limitation
Dimensions, title-page claims, production instructions, and transfer history require official catalogue and archival verification.
Verification state: dossier-derived; independent catalogue verification pending
Corpus coverage
Linked literary units
Coverage means the working record is associated with material from a unit. It does not imply that the entire unit survives in this record.
Book of the Watchers
Angelic transgression, forbidden teachings, giant offspring, Enoch’s mediation, and cosmic journeys.
Open corpus record →Book of Parables / Similitudes
Visions of judgment, the kings and the mighty, and the Chosen One / Son of Man complex.
Open corpus record →Astronomical Book / Book of Luminaries
Solar and lunar courses, gates, calendrical order, and the authority of revealed cosmic measurement.
Open corpus record →Book of Dream Visions
Flood vision and the Animal Apocalypse’s symbolic history of humanity and Israel.
Open corpus record →Epistle of Enoch
Exhortation, woes, righteous and sinful scribal behavior, and the Apocalypse of Weeks.
Open corpus record →Noachic materials
Birth of Noah, flood-related traditions, and material possibly inherited from a wider Book of Noah complex.
Open corpus record →Concluding chapter 108
A final admonitory and eschatological conclusion preserved in the standard Geʽez collection.
Open corpus record →Evidence network
Bounded relationships
No edge is a hidden pedigree. A relation can describe coverage, translation context, reception, custody, or editorial use without proving direct physical descent.
Book of the WatchersBounded PreservationBnF Éthiopien 49
BnF Éth. 49 is associated with surviving or editorial evidence for watchers in the working dossier model.
Boundary: This relation identifies bounded coverage only; it does not establish complete wording, direct ancestry, or an original anthology.
Register: Physical witness · Review: dossier-derived-working-relation
Private dossier bindings: CCX-EMR-SRC-05, CCX-EMR-SRC-06
Book of Parables / SimilitudesBounded PreservationBnF Éthiopien 49
BnF Éth. 49 is associated with surviving or editorial evidence for parables in the working dossier model.
Boundary: This relation identifies bounded coverage only; it does not establish complete wording, direct ancestry, or an original anthology.
Register: Physical witness · Review: dossier-derived-working-relation
Private dossier bindings: CCX-EMR-SRC-05, CCX-EMR-SRC-06
Astronomical Book / Book of LuminariesBounded PreservationBnF Éthiopien 49
BnF Éth. 49 is associated with surviving or editorial evidence for astronomical in the working dossier model.
Boundary: This relation identifies bounded coverage only; it does not establish complete wording, direct ancestry, or an original anthology.
Register: Physical witness · Review: dossier-derived-working-relation
Private dossier bindings: CCX-EMR-SRC-05, CCX-EMR-SRC-06
Book of Dream VisionsBounded PreservationBnF Éthiopien 49
BnF Éth. 49 is associated with surviving or editorial evidence for dream visions in the working dossier model.
Boundary: This relation identifies bounded coverage only; it does not establish complete wording, direct ancestry, or an original anthology.
Register: Physical witness · Review: dossier-derived-working-relation
Private dossier bindings: CCX-EMR-SRC-05, CCX-EMR-SRC-06
Epistle of EnochBounded PreservationBnF Éthiopien 49
BnF Éth. 49 is associated with surviving or editorial evidence for epistle in the working dossier model.
Boundary: This relation identifies bounded coverage only; it does not establish complete wording, direct ancestry, or an original anthology.
Register: Physical witness · Review: dossier-derived-working-relation
Private dossier bindings: CCX-EMR-SRC-05, CCX-EMR-SRC-06
Noachic materialsBounded PreservationBnF Éthiopien 49
BnF Éth. 49 is associated with surviving or editorial evidence for noachic in the working dossier model.
Boundary: This relation identifies bounded coverage only; it does not establish complete wording, direct ancestry, or an original anthology.
Register: Physical witness · Review: dossier-derived-working-relation
Private dossier bindings: CCX-EMR-SRC-05, CCX-EMR-SRC-06
Concluding chapter 108Bounded PreservationBnF Éthiopien 49
BnF Éth. 49 is associated with surviving or editorial evidence for chapter 108 in the working dossier model.
Boundary: This relation identifies bounded coverage only; it does not establish complete wording, direct ancestry, or an original anthology.
Register: Physical witness · Review: dossier-derived-working-relation
Private dossier bindings: CCX-EMR-SRC-05, CCX-EMR-SRC-06
MS Bruce 74Reported Copy Or Commission ContextBnF Éthiopien 49
The dossiers connect MS Bruce 74 with a later presentation codex associated with European collection history.
Boundary: Commission, copying, custody, and alteration claims remain pending specialist and custodial-context review.
Register: Historical reconstruction · Review: dossier-derived-working-relation
Private dossier bindings: CCX-EMR-SRC-05, CCX-EMR-SRC-06
Claim-level provenance
Working assertions bound to this record
Bounded record: BnF Éthiopien 49
The Phase 26 working dataset represents BnF Éthiopien 49 as an eighteenth-century Geʽez presentation-codex working record useful for studying acquisition and repackaging.
Open in Evidence Ledger →Corpus boundary: Book of Parables / Similitudes
The working corpus map records Book of Parables / Similitudes with Aramaic state “not-found-in-bounded-corpus”, Greek state “materially-unattested”, Geʽez state “substantially-preserved”, and boundary state “booklet-with-disputed-date-and-provenance”.
Open in Evidence Ledger →Corpus boundary: Concluding chapter 108
The working corpus map records Concluding chapter 108 with Aramaic state “not-found-in-bounded-corpus”, Greek state “materially-unattested-in-working-set”, Geʽez state “preserved”, and boundary state “later-or-separate-conclusion-debated”.
Open in Evidence Ledger →Question maps
Research questions that use this record
A witness may be relevant to several questions without answering all of them.
What does the Geʽez tradition preserve?
The Geʽez manuscript tradition is indispensable for the complete collection and for understanding continuing Tewahedo reception and stewardship.
Open question map →What changed when European institutions gained access?
Acquisition, institutional deposit, translation, and critical publication are distinct reception events that changed who could study the text in Europe.
Open question map →Review and provenance
Source bindings without implied approval
Private source dossiers
CCX-EMR-SRC-05, CCX-EMR-SRC-06
Review packets
CCX-EMR-05, CCX-EMR-06
Current state
No packet is approved. These identifiers show where a future named review must attach; they are not endorsements.